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Wednesday 23rd May 2012
Uprising remembered
7th August 2010© Severin Nowacki, World Economi
Gerhard Schroeder attended the event
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An estimated 200,000 lost their lives during the struggle, in which the home army attempted to liberate the nation’s capital from the Nazis, whilst waiting for Soviet forces.
Ex-German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder attended the event, stating, “I am honoured to have been invited here. This is a very noble gesture towards a country which has brought a lot of pain to Poland by the war it started.”
“The Warsaw Uprising is part of our continent’s drive to freedom... and liberation from Nazism.” ...
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